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Ernest Miller Hemingway (; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s, including seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His writings have become classics of American literature; he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, while three of his novels, four short-story collections and three nonfiction works were published posthumously. Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star before enlisting in the Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded in 1918. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms. He married Hadley Richardson in 1921, the first of four wives. They moved to Paris where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s' "Lost Generation" expatriate community. His debut novel The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926. He divorced Richardson in 1927 and married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War, where he had worked as a journalist and which formed the basis for his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. He and Gellhorn separated after he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II. Hemingway was present with Allied troops as a journalist at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. He maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, in the 1930s and in Cuba in the 1940s and 1950s. On a 1954 trip to Africa, he was seriously injured in two plane accidents on successive days, leaving him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life. In 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where, in mid-1961, he died by suicide. Life and career Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, an affluent suburb just west of Chicago, to Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, a physician, and Grace Hall Hemingway, a musician. His parents were well-educated and well-respected in Oak Park, a conservative community about which resident Frank Lloyd Wright said, "So many churches for so many good people to go to." When Clarence and Grace Hemingway married in 1896, they lived with Grace's father, Ernest Miller Hall, after whom they named their first son, the second of their six children. His sister Marcelline preceded him in 1898, and his younger siblings included Ursula in 1902, Madelaine in 1904, Carol in 1911, and Leicester in 1915. Grace followed the Victorian convention of not differentiating children's clothing by gender. With only a year separating the two, Ernest and Marcelline resembled one-another strongly. Grace wanted them to appear as twins, so in Ernest's first three years she kept his hair long and dressed both children in similarly frilly feminine clothing. Hemingway's mother was a well-known local musician, and taught her reluctant son to play the cello. Later he said music lessons contributed to his writing style, as evidenced in the "contrapuntal structure" of For Whom the Bell Tolls. As an adult Hemingway professed to hate his mother, although they shared similar enthusiastic energies. Each summer the family traveled to Windemere on Walloon Lake, near Petoskey, Michigan. Ernest joined his father and learned to hunt, fish and camp in the woods and lakes of Northern Michigan, early experiences that instilled a life-long passion for outdoor adventure and living in remote or isolated areas.He attended Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park between 1913 and 1917. He was an accomplished athlete, and competed in boxing, track and field, water polo, and football. He performed in the school orchestra for two years with his sister Marcelline, and received good grades in English classes. During his last two years at high school he edited the Trapeze and Tabula (the school's newspaper and yearbook), where he imitated the language of sportswriters and used the pen name Ring Lardner Jr.—a nod to Ring Lardner of the Chicago Tribune whose byline was "Line O'Type". Like Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Sinclair Lewis, Hemingway was a journalist before becoming a novelist. After leaving high school, he went to work for The Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. Although he stayed there for only six months, he relied on the Star's style guide as a foundation for his writing, such as "Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative." World War I In December 1917, after being rejected by the U.S. Army for poor eyesight, Hemingway responded to an International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement recruitment effort and signed on to be an ambulance driver with the American Red Cross Motor Corps in Italy. In May 1918, he sailed from New York, and arrived in Paris as the city was under bombardment from German artillery. That June he arrived at the Italian Front. On his first day in Milan, he was sent to the scene of a munitions factory explosion to join rescuers retrieving the shredded remains of female workers. He described the incident in his 1932 non-fiction book Death in the Afternoon: "I remember that after we searched quite thoroughly for the complete dead we collected fragments." A few days later, he was stationed at Fossalta di Piave.On July 8, he was seriously wounded by mortar fire, having just returned from the canteen bringing chocolate and cigarettes for the men at the front line. Despite his wounds, Hemingway assisted Italian soldiers to safety, for which he was decorated with the Italian War Merit Cross, the Croce al Merito di Guerra. He was still only 18 at the time. Hemingway later said of the incident: "When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you ... Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you." He sustained severe shrapnel wounds to both legs, underwent an immediate operation at a distribution center, and spent five days at a field hospital before he was transferred for recuperation to the Red Cross hospital in Milan. He spent six months at the hospital, where he met and formed a strong friendship with "Chink" Dorman-Smith that lasted for decades and shared a room with future American foreign service officer, ambassador, and author Henry Serrano Villard.While recuperating he fell in love with Agnes von Kurowsky, a Red Cross nurse seven years his senior. When Hemingway returned to the United States in January 1919, he believed Agnes wo.... Discover the Ernest Hemingway popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Ernest Hemingway books.

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    Ernest Hemingway

    Keith Ferrell

    A fascinating biography for young readers that illustrates Ernest Hemingway’s achievement as a writer and paints a vivid portrait of one of America’s finest authors.

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    In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

    Ernest Hemingway

    A strikingly original collection of short stories and accompanying vignettes that marked Ernest Hemingway’s American debut. When In Our Time was first published in 1925, it was wid...

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    Look Homeward, Angel

    Thomas Wolfe

    The spectacular, historymaking first novel about a young man’s coming of age by literary legend Thomas Wolfe, first published in 1929 and long considered a classic of twentieth cen...

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    The Hemingway Patrols

    Terry Mort

    From the summer of 1942 until the end of 1943, Ernest Hemingway spent much of his time patrolling the Gulf Stream and the waters off Cuba’s north shore in his fishing boat, Pilar. ...

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    The Story of Ernest Hemingway

    Oldiees Publishing

    American Biographies Series provides descriptions and stories of people important in the history of the United States. Including the basic facts like education, work, relationships...

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    Hemingway in Love

    A. E. Hotchner

    Hemingway's deeply reflective account of his destructive Paris affair and how it affected the legendary life he rebuilt after, as told to his best friend, the writer A.E. Hotchne...

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    Tender is the Night

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a friend's copy of Tender Is the Night, "If you liked The Great Gatsby, for God's sake read this. Gatsby was a tour de force but this is a confession o...

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    By-Line Ernest Hemingway

    Ernest Hemingway

    A personal glimpse into the life of writer, journalist, war correspondent, adventurer Ernest Hemingway, ranging from experiences in the Spanish Civil War and World War II to his pa...

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    Nick Adams Stories

    Ernest Hemingway

    From one of the 20th century's greatest voices comes the complete chronological anthology of his short stories featuring Nick Adams, Ernest Hemingway's memorable character, as he g...

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    Ernest Hemingway

    Hans-Peter Rodenberg

    Rowohlt EBook Monographie Ernest Hemingway ist immer noch einer der populärsten Autoren der klassischen Moderne, sein Bild oszillierend zwischen Metaphysiker, Macho und medialem S...

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    Ernest Hemingway

    James Nagel

    Ernest Hemingway: The Oak Park Legacy is the first extensive examination of the relationship of Hemingway to his hometown, Oak Park, Illinois, and the influence its people, places,...

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    The Paris Wife

    Paula McLain

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  A deeply evocative novel of ambition and betrayal that captures the love affair between two unforgettable people, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadl...

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    Ernest Hemingway

    Verna Kale

    Ernest Hemingway has enjoyed a rich legacy as the progenitor of modern fiction, as an outsized character in literary lore who wrote some of the most honest and moving accounts of t...

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    Ernest Hemingway

    Anthony Burgess

    He was six feet tall, hugechested, handsome, ebullient, a warrior, a hunter, a fisherman, a drinker.' Ernest Hemingway was 'a man who lived it up to write it down' and...

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    Ernest Hemingway

    Linda Wagner-Martin

    Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Life includes new research on the bestknown of the posthumous publications: A Moveable Feast, 1964 (and the 2009 A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition...

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    Ernest Hemingway on Writing

    Larry W. Phillips

    An assemblage of reflections on the nature of writing and the writer from one the greatest American writers of the twentieth century.Throughout Hemingway’s career as a writer, he m...

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    The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway

    Ernest Hemingway

    The complete, authoritative collection of Ernest Hemingway's short fiction, including classic stories like "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "A Clean, WellLighted Place," and "The Short ...

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    Ernest Hemingway in Paris - A Guide

    Global Trails

    Paris gave Hemingway friendships, literary contacts, a home, inspiration, and some of his most memorable experiences. In turn, Hemingway’s writing, and the many biographical circum...

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    Ernest Hemingway

    Passerino Editore

    La vita di Ernest Emingway, premio Nobel per la letteratura nel 1954, e autore di romanzi memorabili come "Per chi suona la campana", "Il vecchio e il mare", "Addio alle armi", orm...

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    Ernest Hemingway in Key West - A Guide

    Global Trails

    In Hemingway in Key West, we discover Hemingway’s favourite places on the island where he produced some of his most celebrated work. Hemingway lived in Key West for many years...

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    Out Came the Sun

    Mariel Hemingway & Ben Greenman

    A moving, compelling memoir about growing up and escaping the tragic legacy of mental illness, suicide, addiction, and depression in one of America’s most famous families: the Hemi...

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    Ernest Hemingway

    James M. Hutchisson

    To many, the life of Ernest Hemingway has taken on mythic proportions. From his romantic entanglements to his legendary bravado, the elements of Papa’s persona have fascinated read...

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    The Paris Hours

    Alex George

    “Like All the Light We Cannot See, The Paris Hours explores the brutality of war and its lingering effects with cinematic intensity. The ending will leave you breathless.” Christin...

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    Ernest Hemingway

    Mary V. Dearborn

    The first full biography of Ernest Hemingway in more than fifteen years; the first to draw upon a wide array of neverbeforeused material; the first written by a woman, from the wid...

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    Ernest Hemingway

    Jeffrey Meyers

    This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme)...

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    Ernest Hemingway

    Quentin Ritzen

    Quentin Ritzen, né à Paris en 1922, médecin des hôpitaux de Paris ; il désire séparer sa personnalité médicale et sa personnalité littéraire. Aussi atil emprunté à sa mère un nom q...

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    Salinger

    David Shields & Shane Salerno

    Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 peopleand published in coordination with the international theatrical release of a major doc...

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    Ernest Hemingway

    Shmoop

    "Dive deep into the story of Ernest Hemingway's life anywhere you go: on a plane, on a mountain, in a canoe, under a tree. Or grab a flashlight and read Shmoop under the covers. Sh...

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    Love and Ruin

    Paula McLain

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A powerful novel of the stormy marriage between Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, a fiercely independent woman who became one of the greatest war cor...

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    Mistress of the Ritz

    Melanie Benjamin

    A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary reallife American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War IIwhile playing hostess to the in...

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    The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

    Ernest Hemingway

    The definitive short story collection that established Ernest Hemingway's literary reputation, originally published in 1938.Ernest Hemingway is a cultural iconan archetype of rugge...